Deciding to cut

Ok I've tried to figure some of this out myself and it is just too overwhelming. Im 18 years old 5'10'' or 5'11'' and 180lbs. I lost about 40-45 lbs. on my own about a year ago and still got some gut and "man boobs." It seems hard to lose anymore weight. Now I just want to lose bodyfat. After get my body fat lowered then I want to gain muscle. I recently just started weight lifting.

I need help mostly with a diet. I've tried figuring it out myself and just get lost.
 
i could give you some general advice buts its alot easier if you give me more specific info what is your current lifting/cardio schedule, whats your diet like now get your bf tested stuff like that? figure out an average of your mantenance calories(Harris-Benedict eq) What did you do to lose weight in the past?
 
I don't really have a diet right now I just try to stay away from junk foods. Breakfast usually pancakes or scrambeled eggs w/cheese and sausage. Lunch usually turkey or ham sandwhich on wheat bread, no cheese with mustard or bbq sauce. Dinner is whatever we have at home.
Haven't tested my bodyfat, not sure how.
My cardio is running on treadmill 2-3 miles I try run everynight I have time.
Weigth lifting looks like this:
Day 1- Chest/triceps
Day 2- Abs/ gonna start doing legs
Day 3- Biceps/back
 
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ok for breakfast pancakes can be ok once in a while if you are using whole wheat or buck wheat mix with sugar free syrup, but the eggs are better w/o cheese and especially w/othe sausage, just make sur etheir egg whites or egg beaters add a piece of fruit and a glass of skim milk and you got yourself a well balanced breakfast, oatmeal's good too. get rid of the ham but the turkey and mustard on wheat is excellent, add in some veggies. for dinner try to get a complex carb( brown rice/whole wheat pasta)/a lean protein (like chicken/tuna) and veggies. Also it can be a pain but try adding in a couple of extra meals and lower your portion sizes, if this is to time consuming just bring some fruit/canned tuna along where ever you go and snack on that in between, a whey protien shake can fit in nicely for pre or post workout too. According to an estimate w/ the harris benedict eq remember this is just an estimate and im assuming your doing cardio at least 3 days a week on top of the lifting gives you a mantenance btwn 2800-3000 calories, because you are trying to cut you should try a 20% deficit probably around 2300-2400calories a day. Remeber this is just a start but this should lead you in the right direction read the stickies on nutrition, oh almost forgot make sure your hitting the compounds hard when your lifting hope this helps
 
compounds are excercises that work many muscle groups (ie squats/pull ups/deadlifts) stuff like that, those are much more important then concentration stuff like concentration curls or something, make sure the compounds come first!!!
 
Just curious - how did you lose those 45 lbs before? Losing that much weight is no mean feat. You must've been doing something right!

Start taking note of everything you eat, and make a post here to get critiqued. You'll find you've been doing more wrong than you think ;)
Read the stickies and ask lots of questions!

Good luck, keep us posted.
 
You might find that after losing all that weight you body might be more receptive to putting on some muscle. This may mean in increase in calories and hitting the weights hard. If you are lucky you may gain some LBM and lose some body fat thereby "filling you out" which may go to getting rid of the man cans and gut.

Good luck
 
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